Dream Catchers: How Mainstream America Discovered Native SpiritualityOxford University Press, 21.09.2004 - 320 Seiten In books such as Mystics and Messiahs, Hidden Gospels, and The Next Christendom, Philip Jenkins has established himself as a leading commentator on religion and society. Now, in Dream Catchers, Jenkins offers a brilliant account of the changing mainstream attitudes towards Native American spirituality, once seen as degraded spectacle, now hailed as New Age salvation. Jenkins charts this remarkable change by highlighting the complex history of white American attitudes towards Native religions, considering everything from the 19th-century American obsession with "Hebrew Indians" and Lost Tribes, to the early 20th-century cult of the Maya as bearers of the wisdom of ancient Atlantis. He looks at the popularity of the Carlos Castaneda books, the writings of Lynn Andrews and Frank Waters, and explores New Age paraphernalia including dream-catchers, crystals, medicine bags, and Native-themed Tarot cards. He also examines the controversial New Age appropriation of Native sacred places and notes that many "white indians" see mainstream society as religiously empty. An engrossing account of our changing attitudes towards Native spirituality, Dream Catchers offers a fascinating introduction to one of the more interesting aspects of contemporary American religion. |
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... least for some New Agers, images of Central American pyramids and jaguars tend all too easily to get confounded with the world of North American Native spirituality. Finally, the book describes changes in non-Native attitudes from the ...
... least for some New Agers, images of Central American pyramids and jaguars tend all too easily to get confounded with the world of North American Native spirituality. Finally, the book describes changes in non-Native attitudes from the ...
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... least to the pseudo-Indians of the Boston Tea Party, and runs through the chiefs and sachems of Tammany Hall, and the intrepid warrior mascots of twentieth-century sports teams. Often, imagined Indian-ness is set against American ...
... least to the pseudo-Indians of the Boston Tea Party, and runs through the chiefs and sachems of Tammany Hall, and the intrepid warrior mascots of twentieth-century sports teams. Often, imagined Indian-ness is set against American ...
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... least beginning even during the worst years of American maltreatment of its Native peoples, a pattern too well-known to be elaborated here. Broken treaties, racism both popular and official, and the disasters of the reservation system ...
... least beginning even during the worst years of American maltreatment of its Native peoples, a pattern too well-known to be elaborated here. Broken treaties, racism both popular and official, and the disasters of the reservation system ...
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... least in a bastardized form. The shift of interest to the Plains has contributed immensely to the growth of neo-Indian spirituality among Euro-Americans. The shelves of chain bookstores now feature many works claiming to offer Native ...
... least in a bastardized form. The shift of interest to the Plains has contributed immensely to the growth of neo-Indian spirituality among Euro-Americans. The shelves of chain bookstores now feature many works claiming to offer Native ...
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... least as often, women). Native activists assign them to what Rayna Green called The Tribe Called Wannabe, or Wanabi. But whatever the nature of that tribe's beliefs, they appeal to a substantial number of people, in the United States ...
... least as often, women). Native activists assign them to what Rayna Green called The Tribe Called Wannabe, or Wanabi. But whatever the nature of that tribe's beliefs, they appeal to a substantial number of people, in the United States ...
Inhalt
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3 Discovering Native Religion 18601920 | 47 |
4 Pilgrims from the Vacuum 18901920 | 65 |
5 Crisis in Red Atlantis 19141925 | 92 |
6 Brave New Worlds 19251950 | 113 |
7 Before the New Age 19201960 | 135 |
8 Vision Quests 19601980 | 154 |
9 The Medicine Show | 175 |
10 Thinking Tribal Thoughts | 197 |
11 Returning the Land | 223 |
Real Religion? | 245 |
Notes | 257 |
Index | 299 |
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